With just days left before the election, a veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer from El Paso, Texas, spoke to Breitbart in an exclusive interview about the “crisis situation” at the border — a situation he said is even worse than the record influx seen in 2014.

The officer felt the need to speak under condition of anonymity because he feared retribution by the Obama administration — an administration that has regularly worked to hide information from the American public. He told Breitbart that “the safety of the American public is at risk.”

Most of the illegal immigrants pouring across the border hail from Central America and many actually turn themselves in to Border Agents because of Obama’s ludicrous policies.

As of Oct. 1, 2016, Breitbart reported that a record number of more than 117,000 have been allowed into the country under the Obama administration’s policy that directs border agents to help them gain asylum, employment and green cards.

In addition to those who streamed across the border knowing that Obama’s policies rewarded unlawful entry, there were also the 271,000 over the past 12 months, as of Oct. 2016, who were caught by the Border Patrol trying to enter illegally. And those were just the ones who were caught. The rest were free to spread out all over the country.

The officer, who has more than 10 years on the jkob, told Breitbart how serious the situation is and that there is a political agenda at play that explains why the media aren’t covering the crisis: “It’s an election year and [the media] have a politically-driven agenda. I don’t know why else it wouldn’t be covered. This is the worst we’ve ever seen it.

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“There are lots of aliens we should be removing, but we can’t do it because we’re handcuffed by policies,” the officer said. “The surge is worse than it was in 2014. Our southern border is not secure. It’s so porous. We have people working seven days a week just meet the demand and workload that’s being created by this administration’s policies.”

“In my book, if we miss one criminal alien who goes on to victimize one American citizen, that’s one too many,” the officer added. “But with the scale we’re talking about here, it’s likely lots of criminal aliens will to be able to slip through the system. So many Americans could potentially be affected by this.”

The officer responded to Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton’s proposal to “end family detention and close private immigrant detention centers.” He told Breitbart:

“If we think we have a mass migration problem now, and she’s trying to propose something like that, it’s only going to further overrun our borders and our officers.”

More and more professionals on the ground have spoken out about what this country is facing, and they have made it abundantly clear how devastating a Clinton presidency would be.

The National ICE Council, the union for immigration and customs officers, endorsed GOP nominee Donald Trump in September and “urged all Americans, especially the millions of lawful immigrants living within our country, to support Donald J. Trump, and to protect American jobs, wages and lives.”

The choice is clear.

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